Résumé
📍 Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
📧 contact at input dot sh
Tech skills
- Very comfortable with: Debian/Ubuntu servers, Docker/docker-compose, GitLab CI/CD, nginx
- Got the hang of it: Kubernetes, Ansible, GCP/GKE, Bash, Python
- Dabbled in: Helm, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Loki/Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic stack
Work history
SysOps Engineer / Platform Engineer, OCCRP.org
JUL 2020 - Present
- Managing container-based services (Docker), allocating server resources, doing timely upgrades, and communicating scheduled downtimes to stakeholders.
- Migrating existing Docker- and Ansible-based infrastructure into a GitOps environment (Git repository as a source of truth) using Argo CD and Helm.
- Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (using GitLab) to automate software delivery processes, including automated testing and vulnerability scanning.
- Security hardening dedicated servers with kernel patches (grsecurity). Deploying applications to a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes engine that utilizes confidential computing, allowing full cluster attestation and ensuring data is encrypted both at-rest and in memory.
System and Network Administrator, GRM.Digital
NOV 2019 - JUL 2020
- Deploying and maintaining a number of .NET-based (SiteCore, Kentico) websites on Windows-based servers.
- Automating WordPress deployments, maintenance and version upgrades using Ansible.
- Supporting mid- to enterprise-sized clients with their infrastructure needs, including server maintenance and CMS version upgrades.
Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow, Bits of Freedom
SEP 2017 - SEP 2018
- One year fellowship sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
- Project managing and delivering My Data Done Right, a web platform that allows EU citizens to exercise their GDPR rights.
- Representing Mozilla Foundation at various tech conferences, meeting and maintaining connection with a group of digital rights defenders across geographical barriers.
Technical Assistant, OCCRP.org
OCT 2015 - SEP 2017
- A person of contact for tech support in a medium-sized journalist organization.
- Writing and maintaining custom Docker containers.
- Doing individual and group-based security training to journalists working under hostile conditions.
- Some frontend work, including laying out interactive stories on award-winning journalism projects (Panama Papers, The Khadija Project).
- Automating data gathering across public registries to assist journalists in finding their stories.
Active certificates
- LPIC-1 (obtained in March 2021, active until March 2026)
Languages I speak
- Native Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- Excellent English
- Basic German (A2)
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